Specialization, Constraints, and Conflicting Interests in Mutualistic Networks

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 341-346

  Blüthgen, Nico ^a   Menzel, Florian ^a   Hovestadt, Thomas ^a   Fiala, Brigitte ^a   Blüthgen, Nils ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PLANT; SYMBIOSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33846917421     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.12.039     Document Type: Article

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